Stefano Delle Chiaie

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Stefano Delle Chiaie
Stefano Delle Chiaie in 1975.
Born13 September 1936
Died10 September 2019(2019-09-10) (aged 82)
NationalityItalian
Organizations
Known forStrategy of tension
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Political partyMovimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Social Movement)

Stefano Delle Chiaie (13 September 1936,

neo-fascist political party established after the war[3]

Italy activity

Founder of Avanguardia Nazionale in 1960

Delle Chiaie began as member of the

neo-Nazi Kameradschaftsring Nationaler Jugendverbände (KNJ).[3] He then formed, in 1960, the National Vanguard ("Avanguardia Nazionale") as a street-fighting group. Around this time, he also became a member of the secret P2 Masonic Lodge
.

From 1962 to 1964 he was employed by the Servizio informazioni forze armate [it] tasked with infiltrating in and breaking up left-wing demonstrations.[5]

In May 1974, Delle Chiaie’s last known forwarding address was discovered by investigators from the Portuguese Armed Forces Movement when they raided the Lisbon HQ of Aginter Press and its political wing, "Order and Tradition." The address was: Apartado 1682, El Salvador.[6]

Delle Chiaie soon became a close ally of Junio Valerio Borghese and was suspected with him in the Golpe Borghese, but was acquitted because at the time he was in Barcelona.

Delle Chiaie was arrested in

Strage di Piazza Fontana bombing of Milan on 12 December 1969, when 17 people were killed and 88 wounded.[7][8] Delle Chiaie was acquitted by the Assize Court in Catanzaro in 1989, along with fellow accused Massimiliano Fachini.[9]
On 20 February 1989 he was declared not guilty. On 5 July 1991 on appeal was acquitted for the case and for participation to subversive association.

He was also charged with subversive association in relationship to the 1980 Bologna railway station bombing, but was acquitted on appeals.[10]

Founder of Lega Nazionalpopolare 1991

In October 1991 he founded Lega Nazionalpopolare. The movement had limited success at the national parliamentary election 1992 in Italy.

Activity in France

Delle Chiaie started a neo-fascist transnational magazine entitled Confidentiel in Paris, France, in 1979.[11] The magazine was also published in Italy, Spain and France and folded in 1981.[11]

Activity in South America

Delle Chiaie was described by the

CIA as being the most wanted rightist terrorist in 1983,[citation needed
] was suspected of a lot of irregular activity, but was always acquitted on appeal.

In the course of his activities, Delle Chiaie was also known by a number of aliases, including Er Caccola, Alfa, Topigigio and Alfredo Di Stéfano,[7] after the celebrated footballer of the same name. Delle Chiaie has since spent most of his time working in Latin America. Delle Chiaie took part in Yves Guérin-Sérac's "Aginter Press" founded in António de Oliveira Salazar's Portugal in 1965.

As cited in The Fourth Reich: Klaus Barbie and the Neo-Fascist Connection, by

Cocaine Coup" in Bolivia, along with the German war criminal Klaus Barbie, that brought General Luis García Meza to power in the early 1980s.[12]

His international activities started early. He first took part in Yves Guérin-Sérac's "

Carlists
in Spain, before leaving for Latin America.

In South America, he took part in the 'Cocaine Coup' of

SIDE
which had been called on for 70 foreign agents. He later worked for the new government in training its soldiers. Delle Chiaie later declared in a 1983 interview to a Spanish reporter:

I was decided to give my hand to the creation of an international revolutionary movement... Therefore, when the opportunity of a national revolution appeared in Bolivia, we were there to shoulder our comrades. We were neither repressors nor

narco-terrorists, but political militants.[14]

Judge

Baltazar Garzón's investigations demonstrated that he had worked both for Pinochet's political police, the DINA, for the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (Triple A) and for Hugo Banzer's dictatorship in Bolivia.[13]

Delle Chiaie had met in Madrid with Pinochet during

Chilean Socialist Party. The plan failed, either because of Altamirano's awareness and personal caution, or because some intelligence agency — it is not known from which country — may have made him aware of the threats on his personal life.[13]

According to

military coup d'état of September 1980.[15]

During a 1997 hearing before the Commission on terrorism headed by senator

World Anticommunist League, but said that after attending a meeting in Paraguay, he left it. He claimed that the latter was a front for the CIA.[14] He only admitted having taken part in the New European Order
(NOE) organization, and denied having worked with the International Anticommunist Alliance around 1974.

According to CIA documents, in Madrid, Delle Chiaie also met with

Chilean Christian Democrat. On 6 October 1975 Leighton and his wife were severely injured by gunshots while in exile in Rome.[16] While Townley insisted that DINA head Manuel Contreras gave him the order to carry out the assassination attempt, Vinciguerra alleged that Dell Chiaie gave him information that Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet directly ordered it.[17] Delle Chiaie would be acquitted, while Townley would be convicted and sentenced to 18 years in absentia in March 1993.[17]

Delle Chiaie, along with fellow neo-fascist

María Servini de Cubría that Enrique Arancibia Clavel (a former Chilean secret police agent prosecuted for crimes against humanity in 2004[18]) and Michael Townley were directly involved in the Carlos Prats assassination.[19]

Michael Townley has claimed that DINA agent Enrique Arancibia Clavel, convicted in Argentina for the 1974 assassination of General Carlos Prats, had traveled to California in the autumn of 1977 on banking business for ALFA, alias Stefano Delle Chiaie.[20]

See also

References

Citations

  1. ^ Staff writer (Sep. 10, 2019). "È morto Stefano Delle Chiaie, accusato di concorso esterno nella strage di Bologna" (in Italian). Repubblica.it. Accessed Sep. 10, 2019.
  2. ISBN 0946222096
    .
  3. ^
    Sperling & Kupfer
    .
  4. ^ González Calleja 2017, p. 171.
  5. ^ González Calleja 2017, p. 172.
  6. ISBN 0946222096
    . p. 41.
  7. ^ a b González Calleja 2017, p. 167.
  8. ^ Cornwell, Rupert (Oct. 13, 1982). "Key Terror Suspect Flown Back to Italy." Financial Times, no. 28,898. p. 2
  9. ^ Staff writer (Feb. 21, 1989). "Two Acquitted of Organizing Terror Attack". Associated Press.
  10. ^ Staff writer (Jul. 11, 1988). "Four Convicted of Mass Murder in Italian Bombing That Killed 85." Associated Press.
  11. ^
    S2CID 246635263
    .
  12. ISBN 0340344431, 978-0340344439
    .
    U.S. Edition:
    ISBN 0030693039, 978-0030693038
    .
  13. ^ a b c Sorin, Sergio (Feb. 4, 1999). "Las Relaciones Secretas Entre Pinochet, Franco y la P2: Conspiración Para Matar." Nizkor Project.
  14. ^ a b Hearing of Stefano Delle Chiaie on 22 July 1997 before the Italian Parliamentary Commission on Terrorism. Headed by Senator Giovanni Pellegrino.
  15. ^ Nezan, Kendal (Jul. 1998). "Turkey's Pivotal Role in the International Drug Trade." Le Monde diplomatique. (in English and French)
  16. ^ Kornbluh, Peter. "Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973". National Security Archive.
  17. ^
    UPI
    .
  18. ^ Gotkine, Elliot (Aug. 24, 2004). "Vital Rights Ruling in Argentina." BBC. (in English)
  19. ^ Calloni, Stella (May 22, 2000). "Arancibia, 'Clave' en la Cooperación de las Dictaduras". La Jornada. (in Spanish)
  20. ^ Declassified documents #2 and #6. National Security Archive.

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External links
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